His question: For comparison with the Sejarah Melayu, is there in the Indian tradition (Vedic or epic, for example) texts transmitted on the one hand in a written form (copies of manuscript in manuscript), on the other hand Without written support (a scribe not writing a text that he knows by heart)? I think that this has happened for the SM: some variants (eg the displacement of episodes) can only be explained by a stage of memory. Do you have the reference of an article on the subject, or do you have a book that talks about it?

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Arlo Griffiths via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Colleagues,

My friend Henri Chambert-Loir, specialist of classical Malay literature, who is currently working again on the Sulalat al-Salatin (a.k.a. Sejarah Melayu, or 'Malay Annals'), has asked me a question that I would like to relay to the learned assembly:

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Ma question : pour comparaison avec le Sejarah Melayu, existe-t-il dans la tradition indienne (vedique ou epique p.ex.) des textes qui se sont transmis d’une part de facon ecrite (copies de manuscrit en manuscrit), d’autre part sans support ecrit (un scribe mettant pas ecrit un texte qu’il connait par coeur) ? Je pense que cela s’est produit pour le SM : certaines variantes (ex. le deplacement d’episodes) ne peuvent s’expliquer que par un stade de memoire. As-tu la reference d’un article sur le sujet, ou possedes-tu un livre qui en parle ?

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Would anyone have potentially useful philogogical comparanda in mind, and references (preferably with pdfs) to share that I could transmit to Prof. Chambert-Loir?

Thank you!

Arlo Griffiths

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